[Foundation-l] The status of smaller languages on the Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Arnold
arnomane at gmx.de
Sun May 7 00:21:45 UTC 2006
Am Samstag, 06. Mai 2006 19:24 schrieb SJ:
> I find the discussion of "uselang=" the most interesting on that page.
> This would be a crude first step towards giving anonymous readers
> more of a say in how they browse the site. Perhaps uselang choices
> could also be pulled from browser settings, and potentially set as a
> cookie independent of them logging in (for those who never create /
> don't want accounts).
The problem is that many people like me look at different languages on a daily
basis in order to work in Wikimedia Commons that's why I personally was
reserved on these "uselang" link in the language templates.
But I would really appreciate a cookie based solution that way that anonymous
users can choose their interface language or directly set it via browser
language settings. There exists even a patch for it but it was rejected due
to caching problems:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3665
So as there is code existing I don't think a solution hacked into the wiki
page code with negative side effects is the best way to go but a clean
solution that satisfies all people way better in the MediaWiki software.
Regards,
Daniel Arnold / Arnomane
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